Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Investigating, the police quickly found the source of the trouble: the Soviet embassy. While Guinea's drift toward Moscow looked alarming to the West, Moscow's Ambassador Daniel Solod had felt all along that the drift was not nearly strong or fast enough. He had no use for what Touré called his policy of "positive neutralism," felt he should move closer to outright Communism. Apparently Solod simply decided to help along a coup d'ètat to speed things...
...suddenly finds her career and her marriage interrupted-she closes out of town in an ingenue role, and not long afterward her husband dies. Wealthy and alone, she takes a luxurious flat in Rome and begins, in a quiet, middle-aged way, to live the sweet life, begins to drift. With energy to burn, she soon finds herself wishing that some man would put a match to it; but no man appears...
There are still, of course, the two most confusing characters of all: Hector (Harry Low Simons) and Gnatalia (Carolyn Mercer) who drift across the stage with cryptic sneers apparently wondering why Wolfson put them there. Yet what they must say they say with dignity. And David Gilfillan has designed a magnificently intricate machine...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...
What seemed most troubling all evening was the sameness of it all. Any melody had a hard time expressing a specific feeling of its own; rather it would drift into a nostalgic sitting-round-the-fire sort of mood which could be poignant but little else. This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...